Tito, please stop putting Darnell McDonald in your lineup. There has to be a better alternative somehwhere. He is supposed to be someone who hits left handers. When will he start doing this?? He couldn't hit water if he fell out of a boat in Boston Harbor.

Tito, please stop putting Darnell McDonald in your lineup. There has to be a better alternative somehwhere. He is supposed to be someone who hits left handers. When will he start doing this?? He couldn't hit water if he fell out of a boat in Boston Harbor.Posted by TW4069

Couldn't agree more, and what's more Tito went against his supposed favorite "strategy" of righty on lefty, lefty on righty. Why not CC in left, Salty as DH? I completely agree with posters on other threads who decry Tito's "I surrender" line-ups where he puts all our worst hitters in at the same time. Who doesn't think the opposing pitcher doesn't walk out there in the first inning thinking "sweet" when he sees those "oh well, we won the first game of the double-header or the 3 game series, so I afford to give one away" line-ups Tito likes to use.

Tito, please stop putting Darnell McDonald in your lineup. There has to be a better alternative somehwhere. He is supposed to be someone who hits left handers. When will he start doing this?? He couldn't hit water if he fell out of a boat in Boston Harbor.Posted by TW4069

This is one big reason I wanted to try and get Francouer. He can hit lefties and field much better than DMac, esp in RF.Posted by moonslav59

That was also my hope. Randy Choate looked like a decent leftie specialist as well. If batting DMac against lefties hasn't brought much production, hitting him against righties has been downright painful to watch

I always felt Jason Bay was a good player who fit our team well. Theo outsmarted himself on that one. Picking up Crawford was nice but this team is way too left handed than it should be, Drew, Reddick, Ellsbury, AGON, Ortiz. They need a right handed hitter with power to compliment their ball park. They do not have this and its comuing back to haunt them.

I always felt Jason Bay was a good player who fit our team well. Theo outsmarted himself on that one. Picking up Crawford was nice but this team is way too left handed than it should be, Drew, Reddick, Ellsbury, AGON, Ortiz. They need a right handed hitter with power to compliment their ball park. They do not have this and its comuing back to haunt them.Posted by AL34

I heard on WEEI that Jason Bay cleared waivers today... What if the Mets pay over half of his salary? We'd be stuck with him for another 2 seasons but it may give us the boost we need for 2011. Especially with the injuries.

Tito and the players should be accountable for their struggles. He is not putting the right line up and players are just assuming that playoffs are given. In a perfect world everyone should be paid on how they perform not how they did...but we dont live in perfect world. This team start hitting soon or else we are out of playoff contention.